Cosmas Reader
COSMAS2-Reader is an R Shiny application for formatting a COSMAS II exported text file. COSMAS II, i.e. the Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System is delevoped and maintained by the Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache at Mannheim.
This project was developed to simplify the process for both scientists and students who want to utilize the IDS corpora.
The format of text files exported from the online COSMAS II interface can be challenging to convert into a table format. Transforming the data into a tabular structure that includes tokens and their contexts is valuable for annotation purposes, especially when you need to perform quick and limited-scale annotations, such as in student research projects or when validating intuitions related to a specific phenomenon.
This application is designed to simplify the process of using the corpora, saving users time, and breaking down potential barriers. It requires no programming skills and removes the need for a lot of manual copying and pasting. To my knowledge, this is the only project that offers this capability.